The Kitchens Garden and its farm and its blog have combined to become more than a blog and a farm and a garden. We have become a community. We call that community the Fellowship of the Farmy and I would love you to join us and become part of our daily conversation.
In the age of social media and “sharing” there are a couple of ways you can join our movement towards clean food and strong bodies.
You can join the blog. I post every day at dawn telling you all about yesterday, then I return after milking the cow and doing the chores to talk to The Fellowship in the Lounge of Comments with my morning cup of coffee. This is my treat before I go back outside to get busy on the work of the day. So you, my dear reader, are very important to me and my day.
If you would like to join the Facebook page go here: FACEBOOK
If you would like to join me on Twitter (mostly I Tweet the blog) go here: TWITTER
If you would like to join me on Pinterest (where I try to post my favourite picture of the day – and other weird stuff) go here: PINTEREST.
And now The Farmy is on INSTAGRAM – find me at cecilia_thekitchensgarden.
And most recently I have another INSTAGRAM page for my AirBnB studio apartment called Kitchens Garden Retreat. The instagram page is called kitchensgardenretreat. The retreat is open so if you would like a break on the farm just go ahead and find a date that suits.
Find The Kitchens Garden Retreat on airbnb – HERE.
Thank you so very much for joining me on my quest to grow good clean food and spread the word on how easy it really is to lead the best life you can lead and grow and eat the best food we can afford. Creating our own tiny food revolution. The epitome of grass roots!
Take care.
Your friend on the farmy,
celi
PS. When you sign up (or even if you have been signed up for ages) it might be fun for you to introduce yourself in the comments below. Only if you feel like it though… there is NO PRESSURE in the blog world. I would especially love to know where you come from (just the state or country) we have such a gorgeous range of peoples from different places.
c
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199 responses to “Join Us”
Well I have been ‘joined’ for quite a while now, so hardly a new comer. However I must comment that I can’t go a day without reading this fantastic blog, even if I don’t always make a comment. For those that don’t know me, I am an ex-pat from England, living in Bedford VA, at the base of the Blue Ridge Mountains (Peaks of Otter in my sights). I used to live in NJ, and thought moving further south, the weather would be more settled – huh was I wrong. We get all the extremes here like everywhere else. Although sometimes we are protected by the mountains and some of it goes round us.
Love reading the comments from all the other ‘Farmy Folks’!!
I grew up in central Ohio and moved to southwest Florida 23 years ago. Our weather here is always some degree of warm to hot. We got frost on the grass twice in all the years I’ve been here.
Every morning I start my day with a pot of coffee, my newspaper and my phone where I catch up on my favorite posts. I love following all the goings-on on your farmie! It is fascinating to me and I feel like I know you, even though you don’t know me, since I’m pretty quiet! I so appreciate you sharing your life with all of us!
we haven’t experience that here in African,if one day happen,we all die.we appreciate God for that moderate climate.
I hail from England. I don’t always comment but I always enjoy reading your posts about a lifestyle which is very different from mine. That being said, I grew up in a very rural area and don’t consider myself to be a city girl. I’m somewhere in between city/country, I suppose!
Well, you already know where we are; just outside Apsley, Ontario, Canada. It’s raining here and green has burst all over; it will be cooler tomorrow but sunny. It’s another bake day for me. This is the start of our busy season the May long weekend that signals the start of summer and holidays. My wife starts the local market in town and our bread is ready. Today I’ll be baking croissants and scones, cookies, cinnamon rolls and pies. Have a lovely day 🙂
I’m from a little village called Parham in Ontario, Canada. We’re retired folks in our household and have adopted four donkeys to keep us company – AND to keep us active. I’ve lived and taught in tiny rural communities for almost thirty years. We get the whole range of weather conditions here – HOT summers (wet or dry … changes each year) and COLD winters sometimes with incredible snowy conditions – like this past year! I spend five or six hours working outside all year round and I’m loving it. I also love starting my day by checking in with the critters and people at ‘thekithcensgarden’.
Hello from Mackay, in tropical North Queensland, Australia. Like you, we don’t just have climate, we have Weather. Cyclones. The Wet. The Dry. Everything’s extreme. But mostly extremely hot. Which is why I enjoy reading about the cold; vicarious enjoyment of snow and ice without actually having to freeze my toes and fingers off… Originally, I’m from the UK, the south of England. Cool, but moderate, nothing too extreme in either heat or cold. Then I emigrated to Australia and spent 5 years in Melbourne. Cool winters, and extremely hot and dry summers; on days when it was well over 100F you could feel the moisture boiling off your eyeballs and skin turning to sandpaper. After that, a tiny mountain town in northern New South Wales. Lots of rain, cool temperate weather, tremendous fogs and sharp frosts. Down again to the coast. Subtropical. Banana plantations, mango trees. No frost, warmer, more humid. And then I got married, and moved to north Queensland. I have learned to love the climate, because of what it lets me grow! My 4 square metres of vegie garden isn’t producing yet, but when it does, I’m going tropical there too! The Farmy blog is the last one I read at night, or the first one I read when I wake up at 5.30am. I’d miss it badly if it didn’t appear. It was the first blog I started following when I joined WordPress 8 months ago, and it’s still my favourite. You have the animals I wish I could have, and the life I’d have led if I’d been able to start 10 years earlier. I’m too old and not strong enough for the physical labour any more (cancer’s a bitch that way), so thank you for leading the life I’d have loved and writing about it.
Hello! I read you everyday for the last few months.Love your passion and animals. I live in the burbs. here in very dry Northern California.Thank you for sharing with us.
I too am already “joined”. I am a non-blogger/lurker/sometime commenting sort of gal. I hail from Tuscaloosa,Alabama land of the tornado. You are my morning coffee sunrise blog and I couldn’t start my day right without you. 🙂
I’m from Arkansas. I read daily and really enjoy your blog and the farmy comments. There is lots of knowledge being shared. As a stay at home mom of 3 with a love of vegetable gardening and a variety of our own farm animals I love seeing what’s happening on someone else’s farm. I love to feed my family great home grown food like you!
I look forward to your posts every day! The routine is to tend to my own chickens an then come inside to read about your farm. Lovely.
I have been following your blog for a long time now, and it inspires me every single day. I relax and enjoy it with my first cup of coffee at 5.30am. I love reading about what’s been happening on the farmy, and I love the way you care for all your animals. You have a knack for writing my dear.
I’m originally from the UK, but emigrated to Australia many years ago because I love the sun – and as you know, we get plenty! Greetings from the Gold Coast; it’s actually been raining quite heavy here today – a welcome change!
Howdy Y’all from Haslet Texas – North of Fort Worth but not far. My father raised mules and cows on our 7 little acres growing up. Dad had grown up on a cotton farm that raised chickens, cows and pigs for personal consumption. His uncle owned a dairy that ran 400+ dairy cows! In 1975 he decided it was time for him to try to ‘farm’ in our country (near the city) home. He purchased 3 mules that year and added a 4 the following year. (still do not know WHY MULES) But Ole Red, #4 was BAD news. I absolutely loved all the mules, even Ole Red. Ole Red was raised by a teen aged girl, so he was particularly fond of women. Mom and I could go get him in the field at any time and lead him anywhere. Dad, not so much. They lived with us about 2 years, and then Red hauled off and kicked Dad. That was that! Mules gone – Red Brangus cattle moved in, and have been on the land ever since. Mom is very afraid of the cows, thus my exposure to them growing up was quite limited. Dad runs about 4 to 6 head. 7 acres does not feed very many.
As an adult now, I do try to help him, but MEN are MEN and will NOT ask for help. So my husband and I just show up when Mom tells me he is going to need help.
My dream – to have a few chickens and a bee hive or two. Our current neighborhood had deed restrictions that prevent both…. We live in a neighborhood that all the homes are on 1 – 2 acre lots, which is nice. We grow wild flowers and weeds…. And not a TREE on the lot. Like much of Texas, FLAT and FEW trees, but beautiful land. I love our plains. Texas is home….
I don’t comment much but sure enjoy your posts – especially about the pigs!
I live down the road from you a bit in the small town of Minier. I am a wife, mother, homeschooler and blogger. My hope is that one day I will no longer be writing about my plans and dreams of life on the farm, but will instead be able to share snippets of our own life on the farm. Until then, I read your blog daily and look forward to more visit at the farmy where I can learn and discover all the ins and outs of farm life.
I “joined” a long time ago and now, due to our slow internet in the morning, I check my emails and the farmy when all my chores are finished in the evening.
I emigrated from Essex, U.K., to Sydney, Australia in 1966 as a ten pound pom, aged 21. We came to get more sunshine, being fed up with the cold wet English weather. However, as I am now an avid gardener and hobby farmer, and rely on tank water and dams, there are many times I wish for the rain as we get many extended dry spells. We live in Northern N.S.W. about an hour and a half from the coast, on around 100 acres of hills and dales with a creek running through the middle. We have pets – 8 charolais cows and two new calves, 6 chookies, 6 budgies and 2 golden retrievers, plus many wallabies, ducks and quite often koalas. My husband loves to play tractor (in fact he loves all the big boys toys) and I love to grow things and brushcut. Needless to say, we are both retired from full time work and now spend money instead of making it.
Right now we are heading towards the end of Autumn. It is still quite mild during the day (t-shirts) but the nights are getting colder. However, we rarely need to light a fire. Up here on the ridge there are no frosts, but also the ground dries out quickly.
I hate wind 😦
Love the farmy blog and hearing how other followers are coping in their neck of the woods. Joy